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Title: Broadband Absorbing Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles for Photoacoustic Imaging in Second Near-Infrared Window
Authors: Jiang, Yuyan
Upputuri, Paul Kumar
Xie, Chen
Lyu, Yan
Zhang, Lulu
Xiong, Qihua
Pramanik, Manojit
Pu, Kanyi
Keywords: Polymer nanoparticles
Photoacoustic imaging
Issue Date: 2017
Source: Jiang, Y., Upputuri, P. K., Xie, C., Lyu, Y., Zhang, L., Xiong, Q., et al. (2017). Broadband Absorbing Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles for Photoacoustic Imaging in Second Near-Infrared Window. Nano Letters, 17(8), 4964-4969.
Series/Report no.: Nano Letters
Abstract: Photoacoustic (PA) imaging holds great promise for preclinical research and clinical practice. However, most studies rely on the laser wavelength in the first near-infrared (NIR) window (NIR-I, 650–950 nm), while few studies have been exploited in the second NIR window (NIR-II, 1000–1700 nm), mainly due to the lack of NIR-II absorbing contrast agents. We herein report the synthesis of a broadband absorbing PA contrast agent based on semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPN-II) and apply it for PA imaging in NIR-II window. SPN-II can absorb in both NIR-I and NIR-II regions, providing the feasibility to directly compare PA imaging at 750 nm with that at 1064 nm. Because of the weaker background PA signals from biological tissues in NIR-II window, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of SPN-II resulted PA images at 1064 nm can be 1.4-times higher than that at 750 nm when comparing at the imaging depth of 3 cm. The proof-of-concept application of NIR-II PA imaging is demonstrated in in vivo imaging of brain vasculature in living rats, which showed 1.5-times higher SNR as compared with NIR-I PA imaging. Our study not only introduces the first broadband absorbing organic contrast agent that is applicable for PA imaging in both NIR-I and NIR-II windows but also reveals the advantages of NIR-II over NIR-I in PA imaging.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84411
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43592
ISSN: 1530-6984
Other Identifiers: 14 p.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02106
Schools: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering 
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 
Rights: © 2017 American Chemical Society. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Nano Letters, American Chemical Society. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02106].
Fulltext Permission: open
Fulltext Availability: With Fulltext
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